What do you do when you find some yummy veggies and beans on sale? That’s right, you buy them, bring them home and can them. All in one day. Yeah…sometimes we’re a little crazy… On Sunday Tool Lady found some great deals while doing our bi-weekly grocery shopping so we wound up canning: 7 pints of asparagus 8 pints of…
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Chicks are super cute and fuzzy and brand new and everybody loves them…and then they grow up to be actual chickens who peck and squawk and poop everywhere all the time. Who knew, right?! So, how do you get those cute, cuddly chicks to stay semi-cute and lovable once they’re grown and look like weird dinosaur birds? Well, we do it by…
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Harvest Monday
Happy Monday everyone! Alright, so I finally got into the hoop houses again on Saturday. The sun was shining beautifully and it was quite warm outside…scary warm for February, actually. I checked everything out, watered the fruit trees and just enjoyed the sun on my back for a bit. I didn’t, however, take any pics. I know, I know, crazy…
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Happy Independence days everyone! Here are this weeks accomplishments… Plant something: 1 flat of greens (Sassy Salad, Micro Greens & Spinach) Yellow Taxi Tomatoes Cherokee Purple Tomatoes Roma Tomatoes Brandywine Tomatoes I’ve got visions of tomatoes dancing in my head… Harvest something: 1 oz mixed greens 15 eggs Preserve something: I’m wondering if I can count the seeds I have…
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Our new chicks are in and are officially the cutest little ladies ever! I’ll post more about how we plan to build a new brooder and expand the chicken run to accommodate our 9 new cuties (3 Ameraucanas, 3 Australorps & 3 Buff Orpingtons) , but for now, let’s just enjoy the cuteness for a bit… Yay for backyard chickens and…
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Tomato & Pepper Sprouts
These little guys have popped up among a few of the seeds I’ve started in anticipation of warmer days… Yellow Taxi Tomatoes Green Bell Peppers Since I’ve gotten such an early start, right now I’m just putting a few seeds in pods every week or so (kind of as an experiment). These guys will get thinned as soon as their…
